When your student gets to Basic Rudiments, you can add the exception to the rule. Remind your students that Rests have RULES!Įnjoy teaching your students that a Whole Rest is a Whole Measure of silence (and really stretch your "O"s)! Notes are lucky - they can be syncopated and do lots of funky rhythms that rests can never ever do! Rest Rules are so important, we begin teaching the Rest Rules in Prep 1 Rudiments! These Rest Rules are based on the pulses (and we use the Plus + and Tilde ~ Signs to join or not join into one rest). When a student questions why, for example, they can have a dotted quarter note in 2/4 time, but not a dotted quarter rest, I explain that Rests have Rules. ![]() I like to tell my students that the Whole Rest is the Super Rest! Yup, it has Super Powers and can make a Whole Measure be silent in any Time Signature (except in 4/2 time). ![]() You can use a Whole Rest in 2/4 Time, but you cannot use a Whole Note. For a whole measure of sound in 2/4 Time, we need 2 Beats: S + w.Īs silly as it may seem, you can use a Half Note in 2/4 Time, but you cannot use a Half Rest. Simple - the pulse for a Whole Note is 4 Beats: S + w + M + w. So why don't we use a Whole Note for a whole measure of sound in 2/4 Time? (Get it - WHOLE measure of silence? Use a WHOLE Rest!) Why? Because you must show the importance of that whole measure being silent. Yes, a Half Note will fill a whole measure in 2/4 time with sound but you must use a Whole Rest to fill a whole measure in 2/4 with silence. In 4/4 Time, even though the Whole Rest "technically" receives 4 counts, it is more important to still think of this as the Whole Measure being silent. In 3/4 Time, it is more important to show that the Whole Measure is silent, and not that you just have 3 counts of silence. In 2/4 Time, it is more important to show that the Whole Measure is silent, and not that you just have 2 counts of silence.
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